Walls v. Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This action was one brought by an eight-year-old boy, by his mother as his next friend, against a corporation which owned a truck, and the man who drove the truck, to recover from both of them $10,000 for injuries to the boy by reason of the right front fender or bumper of the defendants’ track striking the boy, which collision broke his right leg and otherwise scratched and bruised him, from which he had practically recovered at the time of the trial except that the leg that had been injured was shorter and he was somewhat nervous.

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